My Life as a Villainess

Laura Lippman

• 04 augustus 2020
• 9780062997340

Samenvatting:

New York Times bestselling
author Laura Lippman, a journalist for many years, collects here her recent
essays exploring motherhood as an older mom, her life as a reader, her
relationships with her parents, friendship, and other topics that will resonate
with a large audience. Her voice is wry
and relatable, her takes often surprising.

Meet the Woman Behind
the Books…

In this collection of new and previously published essays, New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman offers her
take on a woman's life across the decades. Her childhood and school years, her newspaper
career, her experiences as a novelist—Lippman finds universal touchstones in an
unusual life that has as many twists as her award-winning crime fiction.

Essays include:

· Men Explain
The Wire to Me

· Game of
Crones

· My Life as
a Villainess

· My Father’s
Bar

· The 31st Stocking

These candid essays offer long-time readers insight into the
experiences that helped Lippman become one of the most successful crime
novelists of her generation.